Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Performance Department Manager

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is on the lookout for an excellent particular person to handle its busy Efficiency Division. This is a crucial submit on the Conservatoire, working on the coronary heart of the organisation realising concert events, festivals, and tasks at an expert degree to offer college students with the important alternative for inventive engagement in ensemble efficiency.

The Efficiency Division is answerable for all of RBC’s orchestral and enormous ensemble occasions, and as Supervisor you’ll be answerable for delivering this thrilling vary of musical actions to the very best skilled requirements.  

You may be managing the ahead planning for all ensembles, in addition to reserving appropriate personnel and scheduling rehearsals round college students’ busy diaries.  You’ll work with exterior companions reminiscent of CBSO and Welsh Nationwide Opera, and you’ll handle the connection with exterior conductors and soloists, at each a strategic and operational degree.  

We’re on the lookout for somebody with a robust sensible data of classical music, and hands-on expertise of orchestral administration. You have to to be extremely organised, with a fantastic eye for element and a pleasant however agency type with colleagues and college students.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a part of Birmingham Metropolis College, relies in a state-of-the-art £57 million constructing on the coronary heart of the College’s Metropolis Centre Campus. It homes 5 efficiency venues and a bunch of rehearsal areas. Hyperlinks with organizations within the metropolis are robust and embrace, amongst others, the Metropolis of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Royal Ballet. RBC goals to offer distinctive coaching for musicians, actors, and theatre professionals, underpinned by modern skilled follow and analysis excellence. 

In return to your dedication and onerous work, you’ll profit from ongoing alternatives for private {and professional} growth, in addition to the next key advantages:

Why not have a look on the interactive map that reveals the services throughout campus. 

Throughout the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, we’re dedicated to supporting a wealthy range of tradition that displays our native communities and pupil physique. Subsequently, we notably welcome candidates from black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds.

The appointed candidate will usually be employed by way of our subsidiary firm BCU Assist Providers Restricted, a completely owned subsidiary of Birmingham Metropolis College. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who want to enter the LGPS scheme will be capable of do so and will likely be employed by Birmingham Metropolis College straight.

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an educational STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and wish excellent individuals to affix us in taking us on the subsequent stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by way of doing. They’re empowered all through their instructional journey, reaching important instructional acquire and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to affix us. Come and be a part of the subsequent thrilling stage of our journey.

ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

On the coronary heart of our 2025 Technique is our mission is to allow our college students to rework their lives and to realize their potential. By means of our schooling and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on this planet, we not solely help people to rework their lives, however we additionally play a component in remodeling society.

Situated within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with a protracted heritage of innovation and of creating, courting again to our origins in 1843 after we have been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of creating by way of innovation and its utility by way of data change, and of inventive analysis and follow, immediately finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our analysis and enterprise, and in our dedication to challenge-based studying. Working throughout disciplines, and delivering impactful analysis and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is on the coronary heart of the persevering with transformation of our tutorial portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is dwelling to a wealthy and various vary of communities.  Our college students mirror this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to guarantee that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college group. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our employees. Our employees and pupil group is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we work with one another. Our core values are we create alternative, we predict otherwise, and we construct group. 

We’re dedicated to equality, range and inclusion, constantly reviewing and enhancing our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all facets of our operations. We imagine that by working collectively, combining our many alternative backgrounds and life experiences, we are going to empower one another to achieve our full potential. 

We maintain an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our dedication to enhancing employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is situated in some of the culturally wealthy and various Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encompassing area. The occasions of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we’re dedicated to eradicating the institutional obstacles that our employees and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of employees and college students from all backgrounds inside larger schooling.  To show this, we have now signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to indicate our dedication.

Birmingham Metropolis College has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award within the Stonewall Index and have entered the High 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. In the meantime, we’re Incapacity Assured (Dedicated) and are on an thrilling journey to advance our College to progress by way of the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Conscious Employer, which implies we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our employees, and we have now additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by pupil psychological well being charity Pupil Minds.   Moreover, we’re signed as much as The Technician Dedication – a college and analysis establishment initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Basis – aiming to make sure visibility, recognition, profession growth and sustainability for technicians working in larger schooling and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest metropolis in Europe with under-25s accounting for practically 40% of the inhabitants, Birmingham is a metropolis filled with vitality and enthusiasm and is a good place to dwell and work.

Based mostly within the coronary heart of England, town is well accessible by street, rail and air. Birmingham New Road station has lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new speedy rail journey connecting Birmingham Metropolis Centre to London and the remainder of the community from the brand new Curzon Road Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and will likely be some of the environmentally pleasant stations on this planet.

The town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation because the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is dwelling to an inter-disciplinary group of entrepreneurs, companies, tutorial researchers, and college students providing a wealth of help to firms of all sizes to spice up development by way of innovation to deal with business and societal challenges.

Birmingham is brimming with nice theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham Metropolis College Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in addition to stunning historic buildings and the long-lasting Library of Birmingham. It additionally has superb live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It is usually dwelling to the Alexander Stadium, which is the gorgeous new dwelling for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many important occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on town, and Birmingham Metropolis College employees and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for successful athletes. 

Birmingham’s vibrant eating scene provides one thing for all tastes, together with Michelin star eating places, Spiceal Road on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

The town additionally supplies a fantastic place to buy, being dwelling the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous dwelling of British bling – the Jewelry Quarter, which is dwelling to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Faculty of Jewelry.

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the gorgeous arcades and independents, to town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the outlets in Birmingham provide a plethora of alternative.

BCU Values underpin how we work in reaching the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the rules that unite the best way we work collectively and for our college students.